Consultancy firm AT Kearney has claimed that the UK internet economy is now valued at £82bn, which means that every £1 spent on internet access generates £5 in revenue. The news comes ahead of the government's new Communications Bill green paper.

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Akamai's latest quarterly State of the Internet Q3 2011 report has revealed that the average global broadband internet (ISP) download speed has risen by 4.5% in the quarter to 2.7Mbps (Megabits/sec). By comparison the UK average speed increased from 5Mbps to 5.1Mbps over the same period, which caused our world ranking to fall from 25th to 27th place.

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The city of Portsmouth (3.554 Megabits per second) has today come top in a new study of the UK's top 30 fastest Mobile Broadband (3G) cities, which have been ranked by their average internet download speed. Sadly London came near the bottom.

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The UK Internet Telephony Services Providers' Association (ITSPA) has heavily criticised three of the country's five main Mobile Network Operators (MNO) for making it difficult, or even impossible, to use VoIP services like Skype or Google Voice.

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BT Wholesale and UK mobile giant Everything Everywhere (T-Mobile, Orange) have extended their rural Cornwall (St. Newlyn East) trial of superfast 4G (LTE) Mobile Broadband services from "early 2012" until the end of June 2012.

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Customers of O2 UK's mobile internet services have discovered that the operator has been leaking their private personal phone numbers to web servers via HTTP header requests.

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Several mobile phone operators in the UK have reportedly prevented their internet customers from accessing Tor's website, which references a tool that allows people to surf with anonymity.

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A new report from La Quadrature du Net has warned that broadband providers (ISP) and mobile operators in 14 EU Member States engage in "illegitimate restrictions" of their customers' Internet access and damage Net Neutrality.

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